Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1919 — COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs From the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomised—To-gether-With Other Notes Gathered From the Several County Offices. New suits filed: No. 9000. Edward P. Lane vs. Perry S. Washburn. Suit on note. Demand S9O. The Marion township War Moth.leeting will be held Saturday afternoon in the G. A. R. room at the court house. Township Trustee Alfred Duggleby was down from Kankakee township Monday attending the cofinty board of education meeting. iMr. Duggleby and family—all except his wife —recently had a severe tussle with the “flu t ” and an 18-y ear-old son came very near dying. Mr. Duggleby himself lost 25 .or 30 pounds in weight as a result, but is beginning to pick up again. The receipts and expenditures of the Jasper county ‘hospital for the six months ending December 31 last, were: Receipts, $6,993.76, expenditures, $11,667.19, leaving a deficit for the six months ot, $4,673.43. -The receipts and expenditures for the first six months of the >/ear were: Receipts, $3,731.95 and expenditures $7,121.07, leaving a deficit of $3,389.12. The total receipts for the twelve months were $10,725.75, and expenditures $18,788.26, leaving a net deficit for the year of $8,062,55, -or an average deficit of a little over $670 per month.

Marriage license® issued: January 3, Ernest Paul Rockwell of Gillam township, aged 23 June 29 last, Marion Frances Meader of Union township, aged 21 October 13 last, housekeeper. First marriage for each. January 4, Ezra Stoner of Peru, Indiana, aged 23 August 2 last, farmer, and Lydia Bethel Arnold of Barkley township, aged 19 January 22 last, housekeeper. First marriage for each. January 7, Edward Ozro Calton of Chicago, Illinois, aged 35 July 18 last, U. S. employe, and Margaret Hollister, also of Chicago, aged 35 July 4 last, clerk. Second marriage for each. First marriage of male dissolved by death in 1913; first marriage of female dissolved by divorce in May, 1918.

—:—: — County Assessor G. L. Thornton returned Saturday night from Indianapolis where he attended a state meeting of the county assessors, at which the proposed new tax bill was read and discussed. This measure makes many radical changes in the present assessment law and also increases the pay of township assessors from $2 per day to $4.50 and their deputies from $2 to $3.50 for each day actually employed, except in cities of the first and second class where I the deputies receive $4 per iday. ■ln townships having a population of 5,000 or more the assessors are placed on a salary. The law also provides—as does the present law, though never followed —for Lie assessment of all property at its full true cash value, including real estate. The proposed law has some good features ani some bad ones.